Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that he had not committed himself to the rising until the last moment , he was quickly consolidating the initiative he had taken in Morocco and was emerging as its sole leader . |
| 2 | He had almost resigned himself to the fact that this cop was too cautious to be caught out like the one he had almost jumped five nights previously , when without warning the man below stepped out from the shelter of the deep doorway . |
| 3 | But the worst of all was to read what she had finally written on the night before the bazaar , the night before he had added himself to the list of those who had betrayed her — It was the worst hurt of his life . |
| 4 | The party committed itself to the defence of " democracy , national identity and sovereignty " . |
| 5 | Arafat had tried to keep his Fatah guerrillas out of the fighting , but when the Phalange and Chamounists laid siege to the Palestinian camps of Karantina and Tel al-Za'atar , the PLO had committed itself to the war on the side of the Muslims and leftists . |
| 6 | At no time had she addressed herself to the credibility or otherwise of anything in the report . |
| 7 | About three weeks later , Jenny had resigned herself to the fact that she would stay . |
| 8 | The courts have also addressed themselves to the question of whether natural justice or fairness applies to matters of a legislative nature . |
| 9 | Having addressed themselves to the army and the treasury , the authorities turned to the Orthodox Church . |
| 10 | The absence of any coherent and agreed philosophy for the media in many African countries is a matter which is of obvious concern to many of that continent 's politicians as well as its media professionals , and a number of African leaders have addressed themselves to the problem . |
| 11 | I mean I think I 've already resigned myself to the fact that I 'm going to have to do one maybe two years more before I get anything like |
| 12 | By now I had covered a fair expanse of this wood , and I had resigned myself to the fact that this would be the earliest I would get , regardless of what was in the ground . |
| 13 | ‘ I was actually satisfied with that , if only because I 'd resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never be thin , ’ she admits . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't do it grudgingly , I 'd resigned myself to the fact that football was his burning passion . |
| 15 | The newspapers confined themselves to the show itself . |
| 16 | Well , well , well , Captain , I nearly did you a great injustice a minute or two ago , I thought you had not perhaps addressed yourself to the problem on hand . |
| 17 | The trend indicates that as the date for reauthorisation approaches , liberals have resigned themselves to the fact the NEA chairmanship is not a rostrum for ethics , but a political post . |
| 18 | The second argument is that the governments of the EC have committed themselves to the goal of Monetary Union in communiqués at the end of summits in the past . |
| 19 | Six local churches including Q.P. have so far committed themselves to the vision and are represented on the Mark 2 board . ) |
| 20 | He will only say : ‘ Toyota have not committed themselves to the Circuit of Ireland or any other rally this year . ’ |
| 21 | Sting and Peter Gabriel had committed themselves to the Amnesty world tour later that year so gave the June concerts a miss , and Simple Minds had already said yes to the Nelson Mandela birthday celebration the week before . |
| 22 | The Spanish , Dutch , Danish and Belgian Ministers have now committed themselves to the view that such discrimination is unacceptable . |
| 23 | The authorities are thought of as having committed themselves to the maintenance of a particular unemployment rate irrespective of the inflationary consequences and of being prepared to carry over this policy at least into period t . |
| 24 | There was one vital breakthrough for the nationalist consciousness , though there still remains some doubt as to how deep this was for the Fianna Fáil party : all the parties committed themselves to the recognition of the protestant — loyalist group as having legitimate aspirations and affirmed the need for the recognition of ‘ two sets of legitimate rights ’ coexisting in the island as a whole : ‘ Constitutional nationalists are determined to secure justice for all traditions … |
| 25 | Yesterday , a clutch of companies which have committed themselves to the project , including the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo , were awarded Liverpool Compact Partnership Bonds . |
| 26 | The owner treated himself to the luxury of an SFIM two-axis autopilot for pitch and roll control . |
| 27 | On reaching Arcady , he 'd attempted to call Zambia 's old apartment and had explained himself to the woman who now lived there . |
| 28 | Charles had pushed himself to the limit in the armed forces and had insisted upon doing the full training that his fellow officers did — despite protests from his superiors . |
| 29 | He had pushed himself to the limit . |
| 30 | I hope that he now applies himself to them , because he has not applied himself to the rest of his portfolio . |